Note: My Upcoming Lessons in Progress page is a page that I use for myself to organize upcoming lesson plans. You are welcome to peruse through this page; however, nothing from this page is set in stone until it is moved to the 9 Weeks' Pages. Please do not work off of this page in advance. The lesson could change completely. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[R] Homework: Friday 1/16/15 Warm-up:
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1. You must log 40 minutes of quality iStation time. The grade you get will go in the grade book this 9 weeks. Being absent results in a ZERO. Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday 1/15/15 Warm-up:
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1. Post Multiple Choice Benchmark in Google Doc.
2. Take a clear photo of the FINAL copy of your Benchmark essay and submit it to Turnitin.com under "2nd 9 Weeks Benchmark Essay."
3. Turn in final copy of your Benchmark Essay stapled in this order:
Top: Final copy
Peer Revision and Editing paper that someone else did for your essay
2nd draft
3 Hooks
1st draft (Quick Write)
Bottom: Crayon page (pre-writing think sheet)
Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday 1/14/15 Warm-up:
None Assignment: 1. Multiple Choice part of the Benchmark 2. Complete final copy of Benchmark Essay
Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 1/13/15 Warm-up:
None Assignment: 1. Bonsai trip to the LIBRARY! Check in/ Check out 2. Multiple Choice part of the Benchmark 3. Complete final copy of Benchmark Essay
Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday 1/12/15 Warm-up: None Assignment: 1. Exchange essays with a peer. If you are absent, you can do this to your own paper:
DUE: 15 AR Points are due by 3:15. Nothing will be accepted after 3:15.
1. Reading Journals or Essays must be submitted to Turnitin.com Reading Journals or Essays must be titled by book and with the correct prompt letter. Twilight- Prompt C Maniac Magee- Prompt B The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck- Prompt E 2. AR Tests must be completed. 3. If you chose to do additional projects, they must also be turned in by this time as well. Hand-crafted projects must be placed on my back table with your name and the book title on them. Video or technology projects must be shared with me through Google Drive. [Go to your Google Drive, locate and select the project, select SHARE, put in my Google email address (chyde@hjhawks.net), select SHARE] Warm-up: Gather all warm-ups for this 9 weeks (10/27+), be sure they are in the correct order, staple them, and then turn them in to the Warm-up Bin. Assignment:
1. Write the 2nd draft of your essay incorporating your best hook. Be sure your essay has the following:
Hook
Thesis statement
2 seperate, fully developed, sensory, and concrete anecdotes to prove your thesis statement
A conclusion in about 1-2 sentences that sums up your ideas
2. SSR Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday 1/8/15 DUE: Binders are due for a MAJOR GRADE! Be sure you are organized! Warm-up: Select the warm-up for yourclass period:
[AP]
2. Write three different opening paragraphs for the same quick write essay you wrote yesterday using three different styles of beginnings from the handout.
3. Share your 3 different opening paragraphs with another person. Have them help you choose which is the best one. Circle the best opening paragraph. Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday 1/7/15 Warm-up: Select the warm-up for YOUR class period:
[AP]
2. Expository Quick Write
You have 40 minutes to respond to this prompt. Write an essay explaining why it is important to show compassion towards others.
Be sure to organize your writing and to show good traits of writing. Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 1/6/15 Warm-up: Select the warm-up for YOUR class period:
[AP] 3. Use the 2nd page of the above document to prepare for and respond to this prompt:
Write an essay explaining why it is important to show compassion towards others.
On the document, you will prepare your thesis statement and write two anecdotes that prove your thesis statement.
4. Review the outline of an expository essay.
[C] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday 1/5/15 Warm-up: View this video BEFORE responding to the warm-up.
[AP] Homework: Any level not completed is for homework. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday 12/19/14 Warm-up:
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Homework: Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Read and write for AR! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday 12/18/14 Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 6 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 7 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 7.
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3. Unit 7 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
[V] Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 7 Workbook due: 1/22*
Unit 7 Spelling due: 1/28*
Unit 7 TEST: 1/28* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday 12/17/14
NASA Field Trip! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 12/16/14 Warm-up:
none Assignment: 1. ELAR Party in the Library! Bring snacks! 2. SSR and reading journal time! Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday 12/15/14 Warm-up:
[WU] Assignment:
1. Review Game (This is a LIVE link, so it will only work in class) Kahoot.it link! If you were absent for the Review Game, you will need to study all of the papers from the past two weeks that said, "Study 12/12" on them. These also have an asterisk mark next to them on the Wiki space. Homework:
Homework:
Anything not completed in class is homework. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday 12/5/14 Warm-up:
*[C] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 12/2/14 Warm-up:
none Assignment: 1. Library 2. SSR and Reading Journal (During the last 10 minutes of SSR time, summarize what you read in Docs) Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday 12/1/14 Warm-up:
*[C] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday 11/21/14 Warm-up:
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1. Monsters are Due on Maple Street and Elements of Suspense Test 2. Submit Suspense/Scary story to Turnitin.com. Submit the essay to the assignment called "Scary Story." Remember: your username is your school email and your password is your 6-digit lunch # plus a lowercase hj. 3. iStation (35 minutes of quality iStation time) Homework:
Have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Keep reading over the break! Don't forget to work on your reading journals as you read (or essays if you are the ambitious sort). Remember projects to boost your points as well! Any book that has been made into a movie must have essay C with it. All reading journals/essays must be submitted to Turnitin.com for AR test to count.
Here is an extra copy of what you received 5 weeks ago:
[R]
2. Watch the televised version of the play, located on my iTunes U under the post "MDMS. Click here to enroll in my iTunesU course!CCE-TRP-KEJ Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday 11/19/14 Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 5 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 6 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 6.
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3. Unit 6 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
[V] Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 6 Workbook due: 12/4*
Unit 6 Spelling due: 12/18*
Unit 6 TEST: 12/18* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 11/18/14 Warm-up:
none Assignment: 1. Library 2. SSR and Reading Journal (During the last 10 minutes of SSR time, summarize what you read in Docs) Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday 11/17/14 Warm-up:
[WU] Respond to the Warm-up here: Assignment:
1. Open the following in neu.annotate. We will be using neu.annotate to do the work in the guided reading.
[R] Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday 11/14/14 Last day to have a total of 10 AR points for a +30! Warm-up:
4.Open the following in neu.annotate. We will be using neu.annotate to do the work in the guided reading. On this first day, do the first 3 pages, and then begin reading the teleplay. We will continue the play tomorrow.
[WU] Assignment:
1. Watch the video. Using your writer's eye, what elements of suspense are at play? "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
2. Complete, revise, edit, and proofread suspense story in Docs. (Story should be fully developed with all parts of plot. Rising action should be suspenseful and drawn out in slow motion. Stories should be around 300 words.)
3. CLICK here to do your Assignment! Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 11/11/14 Warm-up:
[WU] Assignment:
1. Write entire suspense story in Docs. (Story should be fully developed with all parts of plot. Rising action should be suspenseful and drawn out in slow motion. Stories should be around 300 words.)
2. Submit suspense story to Turnitin.com. The assignment is called "Scary Story" in Turnitin. Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday 11/10/14 Warm-up:
[WU] Assignment:
1. Everyone will share the opening paragraph that they wrote yesterday.
2. Revise opening paragraph.
3. You will be using Docs to do the following: Write the rest of the scary story. Be sure to have all parts of plot: Exposition, rising action, false climax, climax, falling action, and a resolution that leaves your reader uneasy. Be sure to proofread, check for run-ons and fragments, capitalization, spelling, perfect words, paragraphing, punctuation, and sensory detail. Be sure to use at least a 16 pt. font and double space your writing. On Monday, you will be submitting your story to Turnitin.com. Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday 11/6/14 Warm-up:
[AP] Homework:
Whatever not finished from today is for homework. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday 11/5/14 Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 4 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 5 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 5.
[V]
3. Unit 5 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
[V] Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 5 Workbook due: 11/13*
Unit 5 Spelling due: 11/19*
Unit 5 TEST: 11/19* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 11/4/14 Warm-up:
none Assignment: 1. Book Fair 2. SSR and Reading Journal (During the last 10 minutes of SSR time, summarize what you read in Docs) Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday 11/3/14 Warm-up:
[AP] 3. Share time. Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday10/30/14 DUE: Sadlier Workbook Unit 4 Warm-up:
None Assignment: 1. Complete reading of the story from yesterday. Open the following document in neu.annotate. Read while labeling by number the Element of Suspense used throughout the story and take margin notes.
[R] 3. Open the following document in neu.annotate. Read and label by numbering the Elements of Suspense used throughout the story and take margin notes.
[R] Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 10/28/14 Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Library Day
2. SSR and Reading Journal (During the last 10 minutes of SSR time, summarize what you read in Docs) Homework: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday 10/27/14 NEW TEAMS are made TODAY! First come, first served! No changes allowed after tardy bell rings until next 9 weeks. CHOOSE WISELY! Warm-up:
[AP]
2. Team revision (If you are not here today, you will revise on your own.)
- a. Circle all verbs used in each sentence.
- b. Using your vengeance verbs from 10/23 and/or your Vivid Verb list that is in your Word Bank, revise verbs to meet tone.
3. Team edit (If you are not here today, you will edit on your own.)
Check for:
- run-ons
- fragments
- capitalization
- end punctuaiton
- spelling
5. Share time (not required) Homework:
Word Crimes Video Soccer Video
Warm-ups: contractions, faulty parallelism, more usage, plural noun spelling, power writing, dialogue, direct address commas, which and that commas, review cookie grammar commas, punctuation of titles, using specific nouns, pronoun and antecedent, subject verb agreement review, prefixes roots suffixes, articles, verb tense shifts, POV shifts as a trick on STAAR, transitions
Lessons:
Using specific nouns- famous paintings activity Cookie Grammar
Disclaimer: The book and the movie are completely different. If you watch the first two movies before the BIG Hobbit Test, it could skew the reality of the book by a great deal, thus leading you to fail just about everything. However, seeing trailers to get a picture of what characters and settings may look like, could be a good idea.
2. Grading throughout The Hobbit
The Hobbit Reading Journal (Every 2 chapters is a separate daily grade)
The Hobbit Quizzes (approximately every 2 chapters- daily grades)
After Chapter 5 you will write a character analysis of Gollem (Major Grade)
After Chapter 12, you will write a descriptive paragraph that will go through the writing process about a ferocious dragon (Major Grade)
The BIG Hobbit Test (Major Grade- must be passed to be able to go on The Hobbit field trip; Another assignment will be left on the day of the field trip. This assignment will be a ZERO if school is not attended.)
3. The Hobbit Reading Journal
[Not Posted Yet]
4. The Hobbit books are issued (This is the only version that matches the page numbers in The Hobbit Reading Journal).
(This version of the book DOES NOT match the page numbers in The Hobbit Reading Journal, but if you are desperate, meaning you don't have your book and if you don't read, you will be behind, never to catch up-- use it.)
6. Reminder: On Monday, you will be selecting your teams for the entire 9 weeks again. Choose wisely! First come, first served.
Announcements for the 1st 9 Weeks(Scroll Down to View Day-to-Day Assignments) Are you going to be ABSENT and without Internet?
Be sure to read through assignments ahead of time or immediately upon returning to campus and open documents in neu.annotate (app) so that you may work on them without Internet. If you want a paper copy of something, please feel free to check the "Extra Copies of Stuff" drawer that is located in the classroom.
Will we be watching a video link while you are out?
Downloadthe video from my iTunes U to view without Internet.
*NEVER assume that you are excused from assignments just because you are absent. YOU, the student, are the one who is responsible for collecting and completing your missed work in a responsible and timely manner. Late policy (see syllabus) countdown begins upon your return to campus. Going to ZAP?
Students are responsible for printing/obtaining their own work for ZAP.
Every Tuesday or Wednesday before a ZAP Saturday I give students a detailed PROGRESS REPORT that lists any and all zeros that he or she may have at that time. When going to ZAP, all the student needs to bring is this PROGRESS REPORT and their iPad for my class. Students may open all assignments in neu.annotate, complete the assignments, and email them to me while they are sitting in ZAP. Students do not need to print work. Essays may be written on notebook paper, which the ZAP teacher will have. Detailed ZAP instructions are printed on the back of every detailed progress report and are on the ZAP Page on this website. If a student goes to ZAP without their Progress Report and iPad, they will be sent home. There are computers available in ZAP to students who have lost iPad privileges. Outside Reading Assignments are due on 10/16 at exactly 3:15. At 3:16 it is a permanent ZERO. Students need to use their time wisely for reading and doing projects. Do not expect to be allowed to use class time to create projects. Plan ahead! Happy reading! ELAR Binder Organization Key
[WU] -behind Warm-up divider
[W] - behind Writing divider
[AP] - behind Applied Practice divider
[WB] - behind Word Bank divider
[C] - behind Conventions divider
[G] - behind Gallery divider
[R] - behind Reading divider
[V] - behind Vocabulary divider
[CM] - behind Class & Misc. divider
Day-to-Day Assignments Begin Here (Most Recent Dates are Stacked on Top)
Teacher Use: Timer 10/24/14, Friday [LAST DAY OF THE 9 WEEKS] Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. iStation: If you are NOT on the incentive, you must log 35 quality minutes; yes, the system will send a grade to me; yes, if you miss school it will be a ZERO! Homework: ------------------------------------------------------ 10/23/14, Thursday Due: Signed New AR Policy
Sadlier Unit 4 Workbook (due date postponed until 10/30) Winners of THE BATTLE OF MIDDLE EARTH ARE: 2/3: TBA 4/5: TBA 7/8: TBA Warm-up:
[AP] Homework: ------------------------------------------------------ 10/22/14, Wednesday Warm-up: Assignment: 1.STAAR Reading Benchmark
2. Go over New AR Policy
Homework: Get NEW AR Policy signed by a parent and turn it in for a grade tomorrow! ------------------------------------------------------ 10/21/14, Tuesday Warm-up: Assignment: STAAR Writing Benchmark Homework: ------------------------------------------------------ 10/20/14, Monday Warm-up:
Gather all warm-ups from this 9 weeks. Be sure they are in the correct order. Staple them and turn them in to the Warm-up box.[WU]* Assignment:
1. Write a final copy of your BOND essay. Take a clear picture of it and submit it to Turnitin.com. WARNING: If your essay can't be read, it can't be graded and will make a ZERO as a Major GRADE!
Use the following instructions if you don't know how to use Turnitin.com:
READ INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is idiot proof if you READ INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!!!!!
[CM]
2. Turn in the hard copies of your 1st Draft, 2nd Draft, and Final Copy. Staple them together with the Final on top. Homework: ------------------------------------------------------ 10/17/14, Friday Due: 15 AR Points at 3:15 Also due (7/8): ZAP Progress Report ( If you are in ZAP trying to make up this grade, your mere attendance in ZAP will take care of it.) Warm-up:
[WU]* Assignment:
1. Using your essay, check for each error discussed in the Mini-lessons for Clocking PowerPoint. Use proofreader's marks to fix them. (How attentive you are to finding your errors will be your editing grade for this essay.)
As of right now, you only need to do the following slide #'s: 2-10,18, 20, 24, 25, 41, 46, 51, and 52
Homework: ------------------------------------------------------ 10/16/14, Thursday DUE (2/3-4/5): ZAP Progress Report ( If you are in ZAP trying to make up this grade, your mere attendance in ZAP will take care of it.) Warm-up:
Homework: ------------------------------------------------------ 10/15/14, Wednesday Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 3 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 4 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 4.
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3. Unit 4 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
[V] Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 4 Workbook due: 10/23*
Unit 4 Spelling due: 10/29*
Unit 4 TEST: 10/29* ------------------------------------------------------ 10/14/14, Tuesday Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Library Day
2. SSR Homework: ------------------------------------------------------ 10/13/14, Monday Warm-up:
[C] 3. iStation (you must log 35 quality minutes) Homework: -------------------------------------------------------- 10/9/14, Thursday DUE: Sadlier Unit 3 Workbook! Warm-up:
None Assignment:
Chicktionary WAR!!! Homework: -------------------------------------------------------- 10/8/14, Wednesday Warm-up: Assignment: 1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4). Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
[C]* Homework: -------------------------------------------------------- 10/7/14, Tuesday Warm-up: Assignment: 1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4). Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
[C]* Homework: -------------------------------------------------------- 10/6/14, Monday Warm-up: Assignment: 1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4). Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
[C]* Homework: -------------------------------------------------------- 10/3/14, Friday Warm-up: Assignment: 1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4). Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
[C] Assignment: 1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4). Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
(Essay A)[C]* Homework: ---------------------------------------------------- 10/1/14, Wednesday Due: Sadlier Unit 2 Spelling Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 2 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 3 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 3.
[V]
3. Unit 3 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
[V] Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 3 Workbook due: 10/9*
Unit 3 Spelling due: 10/15*
Unit 3 TEST: 10/15* ---------------------------------------------------- 9/30/14, Tuesday Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Library Day!
2. Picture Day!
3. SSR Homework: ---------------------------------------------------- 9/29/14, Monday Warm-up:
[G]* Homework: ---------------------------------------------------- 9/26/14, Friday Warm-up:
Using SPATS and the proofreader's mark for a paragraph (see blue Proofreader's Marks sheet in Conventions), mark the following essay for where paragraph breaks should be.
[WU] Assignment:
1. You have 20 minutes to complete the pre-writing and the draft of My Place to Love. Turn in. These will count as two separate daily grades. I've decided to move on from the descriptive essay as we need to push forward to the full blown narrative.
2. Discussion about what will happen on Monday: On Monday you will have a mock STAAR Writing Benchmark. Yes, it will count as a major grade. No, you can't receive any help with it as it is a test, an essay test. You have been taught how to use correct capitalization, end punctuation, and several comma rules. You have been taught Brush Strokes and the use of "perfect words." You have been taught dialogue and paragraphing. Now it is time to show what you have learned. It will be an "open-binder" mock STAAR Writing Benchmark.
3. I read //Owl Moon// by Jane Yolen.
4. iStation Homework: -------------------------------------------------------- 9/25/14, Thursday DUE: Unit 2 Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook is due (Writing in Action included) Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Drafting My Place to Love:
[AP] Homework: -------------------------------------------------------- 9/24/14, Wednesday Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Mrs. Daleo, the counselor, will be coming in to talk about bullying.
2. I read All the Places to Love by Patrica MacLachlan
3. Pre-writing for My Place to Love
[AP] Homework:
Complete All the Places to Love- pre-writing
Unit 2 Sadlier Workbook (including Writing: Words in Action) is due tomorrow! -------------------------------------------------------- 9/23/14, Tuesday Warm-up:
I read Hello Ocean by Pam Muoz Ryan.
I do not have the full book of a Youtube version of this, but go to this link and you can at least read half of it. Half of it will be enough. Use the graphic organizer from below to categorize the words in the book.
[WB]
2. Quick Write
After you have written your four sentences describing the pictures from the document above, choose the sentence you think is your best. Make this sentence your FIRST sentence of a new story. (10 minutes)[AP]* -------------------------------------------------------- 9/22/14, Monday Warm-up:
[AP]
2. You may outline and draft your Sadlier Writing in Action essay that is due on Thursday or you may read for AR. (Note: When the prompt says that you need three supporting ideas, you may do two.)
[C]* ------------------------------------------------------------ 9/17/14, Wednesday Due: Sadlier Unit 1 Spelling Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 1 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 2 Workbook pages 22-26. Yes, Writing in Action HAS been assigned for this unit. It will be due on the same day as the workbook. Pick ONE of the prompts to write a fully organized and developed essay. (23-26 lines; Remember to focus on your small, tight, and curvy handwriting. There should not be much white space on the page when you are done. If you PRE-ORGANIZE you will make a higher grade.)
(Note: When the prompt says that you need three supporting ideas, you may do two.)
If you own your book, you may write your essay on notebook paper or the back of the answer document below. If you don't own your book, you may write your essay on the back of your workbook answer document.
[V]
3. Unit 2 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
[V] Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 2 Workbook and Writing- Words in Action are due: 9/25*
Unit 2 Spelling due: 10/1*
Unit 2 TEST: 10/1* ----------------------------------------------------------- 9/16/14, Tuesday Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Library Day!
2. SSR Homework: ----------------------------------------------------------- 9/15/14, Monday Warm-up:
[AP] Homework: ----------------------------------------------------------- 9/12/14, Friday Due: Binder Check! Warm-up: First Three Weeks' Pop Quiz! Assignment:
1. Type a final copy of your "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem. Print 2 copies.
Staple in this order to turn in:
Top: 1 FINAL COPY
Blank Rubric
2nd Draft (Editing)
Peer Graded Rubric
1st Draft
Peer Drafting sign off sheet (PowerPoint)
Fill in the blank drafting template (if you did one)
Bottom: Pre-writing triangle
Staple and turn in for your first major grade.[G]*
2. Log into iStation (to make up this grade at home, follow the instructions on my iStation page on how to install this program to your home computer; you may also use the app from the App Store (free), but you will still need the domain name from my iStaiton page to make it work)
- use the log in information that I give you
- you must use headphones from the very start
- you must listen when it talks to you
- yes, your performance on iStaiton is a grade; and yes, iStaion tells me everything: wrong answers and even off task (inactive) time. You must be focused to make a good grade.
[You can trash this paper after you have turned in your poem] Homework: -------------------------------------------------------------- 9/11/14, Thursday Due: Unit 1 Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook Warm-up:
None Assignments:
1. 20 minutes to rewrite a REVISED clean copy (2nd draft). (The more improvement you made during revision, the higher your grade.)
1. Use a different color ink to edit your "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem. Use proofreader's marks!
Is there a semi-colon after the first and second sentence in every stanza?
Does every stanza end with a period?
Is the first letter of every sentence capitalized?
Are there any other punctuation errors?
Are there any spelling errors?
One person on your team will use the following rubric to score your poem (No this is not your real grade. The person on your team will be doing you a favor by scoring it before I grade it, so you can have a chance to correct some issues before you write your final copy tomorrow for the BIG grade.)
If you are in ZAP trying to make up this editing grade, you will be editing the following writing sample using your proofreader's marks (There are 45 errors):
[AP]*
2. Draft "Abandoned Farmhouse" Poem
You may draft on notebook paper.
You may use one of the following drafting templates to help you if you need help, but you must still draft another copy on notebook paper:
[AP] Homework: If you do not finish "Image Grammar- Writing Absolutes and Absolute Phrases" in class, it is for homework. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9/8/14, Monday Warm-up:
[AP]
3. Draft "Abandoned Farmhouse" Poem
You may draft on notebook paper.
You may use one of the following drafting templates to help you if you need help, but you must still draft another copy on notebook paper:
[CM] 2. Complete pre-writing framework of your "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem. 3. Draft "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem. Homework:
1. If you haven't already, get your parent to set up your Apple account.
2. Go to my iTunesU and upload all FREE apps.
3. If you don't already have a Quizlet account or you forgot your Quizlet account information, open the following document and follow all instructions. If you have a Quizlet account, all you need to do is go to my Sadlier page again, select Unit 1, and add to your favorites in Quizlet.
[AP]
3. Poetry analysis: In the margin of the poem, write the setting of each stanza. Below the poem, answer these questions:
What do you notice about the setting of the poem per stanza?
Does the poem's setting become more general and focused out, or does it become more specific and focused in? Explain your answer with evidence from the text and in complete sentences.
[AP]
5. Now that you have read the assignment, fill in the following graphic organizer. You must first decide on your setting and what it is that you will reveal about yourself in the end.
[AP]
6. The following will serve as a guided starting point. Fill it in as you begin to write your poem. Get it checked to be sure you have the right idea. When you get the thumbs up, begin drafting your whole poem on notebook paper. You will be free to fly.
[WU]* 2. Go to this link and either add to home screen (if you don't have your Apple ID along with the Quizlet app yet) or add to favorites (if you do have your Apple ID and Quizlet app). Assignment: Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Day 1. Word Vomit Game
[V]*
2. Unit 1 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.)
[V] 3. I will issue Sadlier books today. If you would like to write in your Sadlier book, then you need to bring me $10. Checks can be made out to HMS. If you have not purchased your book, you will need to write everything on the following paper:
4. Read pages 12-13 out loud. 5. Practice writing the words in their spaces on pages 14-16. 6. Complete pages 17-21. Homework: 1. Finish your Unit 1 Workbook assignments (Sadiler Workbook Unit 1 is due Thursday, 9/11) 2. Continue to study the Unit 1 words: their spellings, their definitions, their associated suffixes, and practice using the words in your own vocabulary. My vocabulary tests can be hard. Merely knowing the definition will not help you. Practice using the words in your own vocabulary when you speak to your peers, parents, and teachers. Before every vocabulary test is given, you have an opportunity to earn extra credit on the test in what I call "Vocabulary Recall." Before the test, 4 minutes will be set on the clock and you will have to write down as many vocabulary words (spelled correctly) as you can recall from your memory on notebook paper. You can get +1 for each word you remember within the 4 minutes that you spell correctly. Recall words must be from current unit. Sadlier Vocabulary Unit 1 TEST will be on 9/ 17 9/2/14, Tuesday Warm-up:
none Assignment:
1. Library Day
2. SSR (Silent Sustained Reading)- a good chance to get into your new book! Homework:
Continue to read for AR. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8/29/14, Friday Due: HW corrections from 8/27 Warm-up: Female Names [WU] Assignment:
1. Read and highlight
[C]
3. Highlight the prepositional phrases in the following poem in yellow; highlight the subject of each sentence in green; highlight the verb that belongs to the subject in each sentence in pink (you may use the colors you have, just create a legend):
[AP]
4. Poetry analysis: In the margin of the poem, write the setting of each stanza. Below the poem, answer these questions:
What do you notice about the setting of the poem per stanza?
Does the poem's setting become more general and focused out, or does it become more specific and focused in? Explain your answer with evidence from the text and in complete sentences.
Homework: ---------------------------------------------------------- 8/28/14, Thursday Due:
Homework from 8/27 Warm-up:
[AP]
2. Do the "Writing with Participles- Quick Write" from the bottom of page 4 on your own notebook paper.
3. Share time. Homework: ---------------------------------------------------------- 8/27/14, Wednesday Due: School supplies and parent signature form- LAST CHANCE for warm-up passes! Warm-up:
[WU]* Assignments:
1. 1st Day Essay for assessment
Write a 26 line essay about a time in your life where a special or important family memory was made.
[G]*
2. Copy the entire document on your own notebook paper.[CM] You must copy it exactly. Pay close attention to spacing, size of letters, indentations, punctuation, and etc. You will use this Handwriting Contract as your template and guide for writing anything in this class. I know that it is a lot to write, but I need you to understand the seriousness of your handwriting this year. You may trace if you would like to, but it is not required. You may not trace the last three lines of the document. You need to write those without tracing.
Homework:
Get school supplies if you have not already, make your dividers, and get your Wiki space/Syllabus form signed. ---------------------------------------------------------- 8/25/14, Monday Warm-up:
Seating chart and introductions
[C]
4. Place an extra copy of the syllabus and a ream of notebook paper behind the Classroom and Misc. divider. [CM]
5. Place each of the following in your three-ringed, zippered pencil pouch and put the pouch in the very front of your ELAR Binder:
4 different colors of highlighters
12 ct. map pencils
2 red pens
1 multi-colored pen
1 big eraser
several pencils
1 hand-held sharpener
1 small glue stick
6. Place your reinforcers in a pocket in your binder
7. Using a dark Sharpie marker, write your first and last name on the spine and on the front of your binder. If you have a black binder, ask for a metallic Sharpie. I have a few.
8. Turn in the following to me:
1 package of multi-colored highlighters
3x5 lined index cards
Expo markers
Kleenex
Any extra supplies
9. When you have completed assembling your ELAR Binder, show me. This is a grade (your 1st grade)! ELAR Binder Rules:
1. The ELAR Binder NEVER leaves the classroom. It has an assigned shelf. Just as a warning- I am absolutely CRAZY about this! You will be allowed to take your ELAR Binders home to mom and dad after STAAR results are in at the end of the year. If you, mom, or dad would like to see a copy of an essay or something you have been working on, you may take a picture of it with your iPad, or Mom or Dad can email me and I will gladly email them a nice scanned-in copy. The only other times your binder may leave the room is for the following: 1. You are taking it to dyslexic intervention with Mrs. Horn, which you will leave with her and she will return. 2. You are taking it to ESL intervention with Mrs. Godinez, which you will leave with her and she will return. 3. You are taking it to Mr. Simmons' room next door for tutorials (Your binder may NOT go to the auditorium with you when Mr. Simmons is doing tutorials in there). 4. Your binder is in your cubby in AEP as you are in AEP, and Mrs. Jones will return it to my box at the end of your stay. 5. You may also see your binder with myself in a parent/teacher conference. Otherwise, your Binder NEVER leaves the classroom!
2. Your binder is to stay organized. You are responsible for keeping it organized on a daily basis. I do random binder checks for a grade pretty often. Having loose papers, papers out of place, or missing papers will cost you. You are welcome to come in during tutorials to work in your binder any day of the week.
9. Practice getting and putting away supplies. You will put your ELAR Binder on the shelf that has your team name on it. If you move teams, so does your binder. Homework:
Get school supplies if you have not already, do today's assignment for your 1st grade, and get your Wiki space/Syllabus form signed.
Archived Enrichment Lessons from 14/15:
[WU] 2. Study for your Sadlier Recall Test Assignments:
1. Sadlier Recall Test (25 minutes)
2. I read The Dot.
3. Last minute questions answered.
4. We shared some of the warm-ups.
5. On Sunday and Monday night, go to be at a reasonable hour. Monday and Tuesday morning- eat a good protein filled breakfast. DO NOT eat sugary breakfasts foods such as doughnuts or pastries. Also, stay away from sugary drinks such as orange juice, chocolate or strawberry milks, sugary sodas, and fruit juices in general. Prepare your mind on the way to school in the morning. Know that you can do this! Know that Mrs. Hyde is proud of you and how far you have grown this year! Homework: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, 3-25-15
DUE: Combining Appositives and Present Participle Phrases from 3/24 Warm-up:
[G]
3. We will share a few of the postcards. Homework: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[WU] Assignments: 1. Grammar Review Clocking- View the following PowerPoint. Do the following with the slides titled (TBA)through(TBA) to make up this grade. With each slide and each concept, write a sentence that contains an error associated with the grammar concept at hand. Ex: If the grammar concept on the slide is about capitalization, write a sentence that contains an error in capitalization. If the slide is about run-on sentences, write a run-on sentence and then correct it in a different color pen. Do this for all slides with a grammar concept. Then, using a different color pen, correct the sentences using proofreaders' marks.
[WU] Assignments: 1. Traits of Writing- Word Choice and Sentence Fluency
Delicious Describers
Browse through the following menus. Notice the word choices and sentence structures being used. Notice they are not using: Hamburger with cheese, lettuce, tomato, and pickle. You will see language dripping with flavor!
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Wednesday, 3-18-15
Due: Sound Effects Review Warm-up: none Assignments:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 9 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 10 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 10.
[V]
3. We will discuss the BIG SADLIER RECALL TEST to be held on 3/26 (See HW below)
4. Big Sadlier Recall Word Vomit Story:
Using the study list from below, write a silly story using at least 25 Sadlier (Units 1-10) words. The story must use the words correctly and have one plot to get credit. Turn in your story, but keep the word handout to study for your test.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
THE BIG SADLIER RECALL TEST (Units 1-9) 3/26 (You will have 25 minutes to recall as many words, spelled correctly, from your Sadlier units as possbile. You will earn 3 points for every word you can recall and spell correctly. This is a Major Grade.)
Unit 10 Workbook due: 4/30*
Unit 10 TEST and Spelling Practice: 5/6* Homework:
Due: Subjects and Predicates 1 due from 3/16 Warm-up: none Assignments: 1. Library Day 2. Team Evaluations 3. Fill out this Google Doc Survey. 4. SSR 5. Share Destruction essays from yesterday. Homework:
[C]
2. Publish magazines to iBooks. Go into Moxtra. Put the final magazine pages in the correct order under the pages tab. Select the final pages that are to be published. Select export to PDF with annotations, select iBooks. Email iBook to Mrs. Hyde at chyde@hjhawks.net.
3. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
[G]
4. Turn in FINAL COPY along with the other parts of the writing process in this order (stapled):
TOP: Final copy
2nd: 2nd draft (the one that I wrote all over)
3rd: Peer Revision Sheet
4th: 1st draft
5th: Prompt and Outline paper
6th BOTTOM: Homer Simpson paper
5. From the following, do Activity 9, Practice 1 on your own notebook paper. Be sure to READ ALL instructions. You WILL FAIL if you don't:
(In class: Get the green Sentence Composing workbook. Do pages 30-32 on your own notebook paper. Turn in.)
[WU] Assignments:
1. Team conferences with Mrs. Hyde about last minute edits for magazines.
2. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
[G]
3. From the following, do Activity 7, Practice 2 and Activity 9, Practice 1 on your own notebook paper. Be sure to READ ALL instructions. You WILL FAIL if you don't:
(In class: Get the green Sentence Composing workbook. Do pages 24-26 and 30-32 on your own notebook paper. Turn in.)
Homework: Complete ALL edits and revisions. We WILL publish tomorrow! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[WU] Assignments:
1. Team conferences with Mrs. Hyde about last minute edits for magazines.
2. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
[G]
3. From the following, do Activity 7, Practice 1 on your own notebook paper. Be sure to READ ALL instructions. You WILL FAIL if you don't:
(In class: Get the green Sentence Composing workbook. Do pages 24-26 on your own notebook paper. Turn in.)
[WU] Assignments:
1. Team conferences with Mrs. Hyde about last minute edits for magazines.
2. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
[G]
3. From the following, do Activity 6, Practice 1 and 2 on your own notebook paper. Be sure to READ ALL instructions. You WILL FAIL if you don't:
(In class: Get the green Sentence Composing workbook. Do pages 20-22 on your own notebook paper. Turn in.)
2. Seriously, complete last minute edits of magazine projects. We are really publishing on Monday! For real this time! No, really! Homework: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[AP] Homework:
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Wednesday, 2-18-15 (SUB 3rd)
Warm-up:
None Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 8 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 8 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 9.
[V]
3. Unit 9 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
[V] Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 9 Workbook due: 3/5*
Unit 9 Spelling due: 3/18*
Unit 9 TEST: 3/18* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, 2-17-15
Warm-up:
Watch this video. Assignments:
1. Respond:
2. If you finish early you may work on your magazine project. Homework: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[AP]
If you finish early you may work on your magazine project. Homework: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Warm-up:
Do the iOS update if you haven't already. Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 7 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 8 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 8.
[V]
3. Unit 8 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
[V] Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 8 Workbook due: 2/12*
Unit 8 Spelling due: 2/18*
Unit 8 TEST: 2/18*
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Friday, 2-6-15 (SUB)
Warm-up:Assignments:
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3.
Homework:
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Thursday, 2-5-15 (SUB)
Warm-up:Assignments:
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2.
Homework:
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Wednesday, 2-4-15 (SUB)
Warm-up:Assignments:
1.
2.
Homework:
Friday 1/16/15
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. You must log 40 minutes of quality iStation time. The grade you get will go in the grade book this 9 weeks. Being absent results in a ZERO.
Homework:
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Thursday 1/15/15
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Post Multiple Choice Benchmark in Google Doc.
2. Take a clear photo of the FINAL copy of your Benchmark essay and submit it to Turnitin.com under "2nd 9 Weeks Benchmark Essay."
3. Turn in final copy of your Benchmark Essay stapled in this order:
- Top: Final copy
- Peer Revision and Editing paper that someone else did for your essay
- 2nd draft
- 3 Hooks
- 1st draft (Quick Write)
- Bottom: Crayon page (pre-writing think sheet)
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Wednesday 1/14/15
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Multiple Choice part of the Benchmark
2. Complete final copy of Benchmark Essay
Homework:
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Tuesday 1/13/15
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Bonsai trip to the LIBRARY! Check in/ Check out
2. Multiple Choice part of the Benchmark
3. Complete final copy of Benchmark Essay
Homework:
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Monday 1/12/15
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Exchange essays with a peer. If you are absent, you can do this to your own paper:
2. Write final copy of your Benchmark Essay.
3. Take a clear photo of the FINAL copy of your Benchmark essay and submit it to Turnitin.com under "2nd 9 Weeks Benchmark Essay."
4. Turn in final copy of your Benchmark Essay stapled in this order:
- Top: Final copy
- Peer Revision and Editing paper that someone else did for your essay
- 2nd draft
- 3 Hooks
- 1st draft (Quick Write)
- Bottom: Crayon page (pre-writing think sheet)
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Friday 1/9/15
DUE: 15 AR Points are due by 3:15. Nothing will be accepted after 3:15.
1. Reading Journals or Essays must be submitted to Turnitin.comReading Journals or Essays must be titled by book and with the correct prompt letter.
Twilight- Prompt C
Maniac Magee- Prompt B
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck- Prompt E
2. AR Tests must be completed.
3. If you chose to do additional projects, they must also be turned in by this time as well.
Hand-crafted projects must be placed on my back table with your name and the book title on them.
Video or technology projects must be shared with me through Google Drive. [Go to your Google Drive, locate and select the project, select SHARE, put in my Google email address (chyde@hjhawks.net), select SHARE]
Warm-up:
Gather all warm-ups for this 9 weeks (10/27+), be sure they are in the correct order, staple them, and then turn them in to the Warm-up Bin.
Assignment:
1. Write the 2nd draft of your essay incorporating your best hook. Be sure your essay has the following:
- Hook
- Thesis statement
- 2 seperate, fully developed, sensory, and concrete anecdotes to prove your thesis statement
- A conclusion in about 1-2 sentences that sums up your ideas
2. SSRHomework:
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Thursday 1/8/15
DUE: Binders are due for a MAJOR GRADE! Be sure you are organized!
Warm-up:
Select the warm-up for your class period:
[WU]
Assignment:
1. Good Beginnings and Endings
2. Write three different opening paragraphs for the same quick write essay you wrote yesterday using three different styles of beginnings from the handout.
3. Share your 3 different opening paragraphs with another person. Have them help you choose which is the best one. Circle the best opening paragraph.
Homework:
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Wednesday 1/7/15
Warm-up:
Select the warm-up for YOUR class period:
[WU]
Assignment:
1. Review the outline of an expository essay.
2. Expository Quick Write
You have 40 minutes to respond to this prompt.
Write an essay explaining why it is important to show compassion towards others.
Be sure to organize your writing and to show good traits of writing.
Homework:
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Tuesday 1/6/15
Warm-up:
Select the warm-up for YOUR class period:
[WU]
Use the following to help you:
[C]
Assignment:
1. Read this book:
2. Choose one of the crayon colors from the book to do the following activity with:
[AP]
3. Use the 2nd page of the above document to prepare for and respond to this prompt:
Write an essay explaining why it is important to show compassion towards others.
On the document, you will prepare your thesis statement and write two anecdotes that prove your thesis statement.
4. Review the outline of an expository essay.
Homework:
Select the homework for your class period:
[C]
Use the following to help you:
[C]
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Monday 1/5/15
Warm-up:
View this video BEFORE responding to the warm-up.
Assignment: All levels must be completed by the end of today.
1. Completely research and respond in the Google forms. This is a serious project and should not be taken lightly. Be sure to consider all responses deeply and thoroughly. You MUST select "Send me a copy of my responses" for level 3 and every level after that. Today, we will be completing levels 7-8. All levels are due.
Compassion Level 1: Definition
Compassion Level 2: Compare/ Contrast
Compassion Level 3: Relationship
Compassion Level 4: Testimony
Compassion Level 5: Circumstance
Compassion Level 6: Synthesis and Connection to Self
Complete Levels 7-8 on the printouts:
2. Brainstorming Anecdotes About Compassion
Homework:
Any level not completed is for homework.
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Friday 12/19/14
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
Homework:
Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Read and write for AR!
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Thursday 12/18/14
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 6 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 7 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 7.
3. Unit 7 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 7 Workbook due: 1/22*
Unit 7 Spelling due: 1/28*
Unit 7 TEST: 1/28*
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Wednesday 12/17/14
NASA Field Trip!
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Tuesday 12/16/14
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. ELAR Party in the Library! Bring snacks!
2. SSR and reading journal time!
Homework:
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Monday 12/15/14
Warm-up:
[WU]
Assignment:
1. Completely research and respond in the Google forms. This is a serious project and should not be taken lightly. Be sure to consider all responses deeply and thoroughly. You MUST select "Send me a copy of my responses" for level 3 and every level after that.
Compassion Level 1: Definition
Compassion Level 2: Compare/ Contrast
Compassion Level 3: Relationship
Compassion Level 4: Testimony
Compassion Level 5: Circumstance
Compassion Level 6: Synthesis and Connection to Self
Complete Levels 7-8 on the printouts:
[AP]
Homework:
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Friday 12/12/14
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. Cookie Grammar/ Types of Sentences TEST
1. Completely research and respond in the Google forms. This is a serious project and should not be taken lightly. Be sure to consider all responses deeply and thoroughly. You MUST select "Send me a copy of my responses" for level 3 and every level after that.
Compassion Level 1: Definition
Compassion Level 2: Compare/ Contrast
Compassion Level 3: Relationship
Compassion Level 4: Testimony
Compassion Level 5: Circumstance
Compassion Level 6: Synthesis and Connection to Self
Homework:
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Thursday 12/11/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Review Game (This is a LIVE link, so it will only work in class)
Kahoot.it link!
If you were absent for the Review Game, you will need to study all of the papers from the past two weeks that said, "Study 12/12" on them. These also have an asterisk mark next to them on the Wiki space.
Homework:
Study for your sentence test tomorrow!
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Wednesday 12/10/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
Expository Pre-Writing
1. Completely research and respond in the Google forms. This is a serious project and should not be taken lightly. Be sure to consider all responses deeply and thoroughly. You MUST select "Send me a copy of my responses" for level 3 and every level after that.
Compassion Level 1: Definition
Compassion Level 2: Compare/ Contrast
Compassion Level 3: Relationship
Compassion Level 4: Testimony
We will continue with levels 5-8 on Monday. Be thinking. Be acting.
Homework:
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Tuesday 12/9/14
Due: (ALL done in class yesterday!)
Cookie Grammar Test Review (12/8)
Semi-Colon and Colon Worksheet (Is a Sem-colon half a colon?) (12/8)
GG-69- Sophistication is in- sentence combining (12/8)
GG122- Punctuating Dialogue (12/8)
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Log in to Turnitin.com and do the assignment called "Scary Story- PeerMark."
Homework:
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Monday 12/8/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Complete:
2. Review:
3. Do:
[C]
Homework:
Anything not completed in class is homework.
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Friday 12/5/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Do:
2. Review:
Homework:
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Thrusday 12/4/14
Due: Sadlier Workbook Unit 6
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. Complete:
Homework:
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Wednesday 12/3/14
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
Homework:
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Tuesday 12/2/14
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. Library
2. SSR and Reading Journal (During the last 10 minutes of SSR time, summarize what you read in Docs)
Homework:
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Monday 12/1/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
Homework:
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Friday 11/21/14
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. Monsters are Due on Maple Street and Elements of Suspense Test
2. Submit Suspense/Scary story to Turnitin.com. Submit the essay to the assignment called "Scary Story."
Remember: your username is your school email and your password is your 6-digit lunch # plus a lowercase hj.
3. iStation (35 minutes of quality iStation time)
Homework:
Have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Keep reading over the break! Don't forget to work on your reading journals as you read (or essays if you are the ambitious sort). Remember projects to boost your points as well! Any book that has been made into a movie must have essay C with it. All reading journals/essays must be submitted to Turnitin.com for AR test to count.
Here is an extra copy of what you received 5 weeks ago:
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Thursday 11/20/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Complete the following:
2. Watch the televised version of the play, located on my iTunes U under the post "MDMS.
Click here to enroll in my iTunesU course!CCE-TRP-KEJ
Homework:
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Wednesday 11/19/14
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 5 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 6 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 6.
3. Unit 6 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 6 Workbook due: 12/4*
Unit 6 Spelling due: 12/18*
Unit 6 TEST: 12/18*
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Tuesday 11/18/14
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. Library
2. SSR and Reading Journal (During the last 10 minutes of SSR time, summarize what you read in Docs)
Homework:
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Monday 11/17/14
Warm-up:
Respond to the Warm-up here:
Assignment:
1. Open the following in neu.annotate. We will be using neu.annotate to do the work in the guided reading.
2. Work on filling in the chart as you read.
Homework:
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Friday 11/14/14
Last day to have a total of 10 AR points for a +30!
Warm-up:
After you do your WARM-UP, click here to do the 2nd part of your WARM-UP!
Assignment:
1. Open the following in neu.annotate. We will be using neu.annotate to do the work in the guided reading.
2. Work on filling in the chart as you read.
Homework:
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Thursday 11/13/14
Due: Sadlier Unit 5 Workbook is due.
Warm-up:
Type the opening paragraph to your Suspense Story before clicking on this link!
Assignment:
1. Scapegoat
2. Activity is for in-class participants only:
3. Go to my iTunes U to enroll and upload the MDMS texts and supplements.
- Click here to enroll in my iTunesU course!CCE-TRP-KEJ
4.Open the following in neu.annotate. We will be using neu.annotate to do the work in the guided reading. On this first day, do the first 3 pages, and then begin reading the teleplay. We will continue the play tomorrow.Homework:
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Wednesday 11/12/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Watch the video. Using your writer's eye, what elements of suspense are at play?
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
2. Complete, revise, edit, and proofread suspense story in Docs. (Story should be fully developed with all parts of plot. Rising action should be suspenseful and drawn out in slow motion. Stories should be around 300 words.)
3.
CLICK here to do your Assignment!
Homework:
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Tuesday 11/11/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Write entire suspense story in Docs. (Story should be fully developed with all parts of plot. Rising action should be suspenseful and drawn out in slow motion. Stories should be around 300 words.)
2. Submit suspense story to Turnitin.com. The assignment is called "Scary Story" in Turnitin.
Homework:
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Monday 11/10/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Share opening paragraphs of suspense stories.
Homework:
Friday 11/7/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Everyone will share the opening paragraph that they wrote yesterday.
2. Revise opening paragraph.
3. You will be using Docs to do the following: Write the rest of the scary story. Be sure to have all parts of plot: Exposition, rising action, false climax, climax, falling action, and a resolution that leaves your reader uneasy. Be sure to proofread, check for run-ons and fragments, capitalization, spelling, perfect words, paragraphing, punctuation, and sensory detail. Be sure to use at least a 16 pt. font and double space your writing. On Monday, you will be submitting your story to Turnitin.com.
Homework:
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Thursday 11/6/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1.
Homework:
Whatever not finished from today is for homework.
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Wednesday 11/5/14
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 4 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 5 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 5.
3. Unit 5 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 5 Workbook due: 11/13*
Unit 5 Spelling due: 11/19*
Unit 5 TEST: 11/19*
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Tuesday 11/4/14
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. Book Fair
2. SSR and Reading Journal (During the last 10 minutes of SSR time, summarize what you read in Docs)
Homework:
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Monday 11/3/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Literary Elements
Homework:
Friday 10/31/14
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Click here to take your Man with the Yellow Face- POP QUIZ.
2.
3. Share time.
Homework:
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Thursday10/30/14
DUE: Sadlier Workbook Unit 4
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Complete reading of the story from yesterday. Open the following document in neu.annotate. Read while labeling by number the Element of Suspense used throughout the story and take margin notes.
2. Label the Parts of Plot from the story on the Plot Schematic graphic organizer:
Homework:
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Wednesday 10/29/14
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Study and know the following Elements of Suspense:
2. Add the following references to your binder:
3. Open the following document in neu.annotate. Read and label by numbering the Elements of Suspense used throughout the story and take margin notes.
Homework:
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Tuesday 10/28/14
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Library Day
2. SSR and Reading Journal (During the last 10 minutes of SSR time, summarize what you read in Docs)
Homework:
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Monday 10/27/14
NEW TEAMS are made TODAY! First come, first served! No changes allowed after tardy bell rings until next 9 weeks. CHOOSE WISELY!
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. On your own notebook paper, complete the following:
2. Team revision (If you are not here today, you will revise on your own.)
- a. Circle all verbs used in each sentence.
- b. Using your vengeance verbs from 10/23 and/or your Vivid Verb list that is in your Word Bank, revise verbs to meet tone.
3. Team edit (If you are not here today, you will edit on your own.)
Check for:
- run-ons
- fragments
- capitalization
- end punctuaiton
- spelling
5. Share time (not required)
Homework:
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Word Crimes Video
Soccer Video
Warm-ups: contractions, faulty parallelism, more usage, plural noun spelling, power writing, dialogue, direct address commas, which and that commas, review cookie grammar commas, punctuation of titles, using specific nouns, pronoun and antecedent, subject verb agreement review, prefixes roots suffixes, articles, verb tense shifts, POV shifts as a trick on STAAR, transitions
Lessons:
Using specific nouns- famous paintings activity
Cookie Grammar
Milkweed (Cookie Grammar must go before this)
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9/19/14, Friday
Due:
Warm-up: plural apostrophe
Assignments:
Homework:
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9/18/14, Thursday
Due:
Warm-up: apostrophe basic
Assignments:
1. Image Grammar 1.2
Clips for Activity 1
Raiders of the Lost Ark- idol scene
A Christmas Story- lamp scene
Jurassic Park- spitting dinosaur scene
2. Clips for Activity 2
Christmas Vacation- sled scene
Spider-man vs Bone Saw scene
The Hobbit- Desolation of Smaug- final scene
Spider-man - basketball scene
Spider-man 3 The birth of Sandman
Homework:
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9/17/14, Wednesday
Due:
Warm-up: usage: there, too, you're, than, it's
Assignments:
Sadlier Unit1
Homework:
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9/16/14, Tuesday
Due:
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Library
2. SSR
Homework:
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9/15/14, Monday
Due:
Warm-up: me talk like caveman
Assignments:
1. Complete Artist's Palette
Homework:
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9/12/14, Friday
Due:
Warm-up:
Assignments:
IG Strategy 1.1 Artist's Palette
Homework:
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9/11/14, Thursday
Due:
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. [IG Test]
2. IG Strategy 1.3 Sue Grafton
Homework:
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9/10/14, Wednesday
Due:
Warm-up:
Assignments:
[Brush Strokes Review]
Homework:
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9/9/14, Tuesday
Due:
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9/8/14, Monday
Due:
Warm-up:
Assignments:
Brush Strokes- adjectives out of order
Homework:
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9/5/14, Friday
Due:
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. [Appositive game]
2. Appositives and Participles poem
Homework:
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9/4/14, Thursday
Due:
Preposition Picture from 8/29 is due!
Warm-up:
[?] - double adjective comma rule
Homework:
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Warm-up:
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Assignment:
1. Hobbit Intro
//The Hobbit// 1st movie trailer
//The Hobbit// 2nd movie trailer
//The Hobbit// 3rd movie trailer
Disclaimer: The book and the movie are completely different. If you watch the first two movies before the BIG Hobbit Test, it could skew the reality of the book by a great deal, thus leading you to fail just about everything. However, seeing trailers to get a picture of what characters and settings may look like, could be a good idea.
2. Grading throughout The Hobbit
The Hobbit Reading Journal (Every 2 chapters is a separate daily grade)
The Hobbit Quizzes (approximately every 2 chapters- daily grades)
After Chapter 5 you will write a character analysis of Gollem (Major Grade)
After Chapter 12, you will write a descriptive paragraph that will go through the writing process about a ferocious dragon (Major Grade)
The BIG Hobbit Test (Major Grade- must be passed to be able to go on The Hobbit field trip; Another assignment will be left on the day of the field trip. This assignment will be a ZERO if school is not attended.)
3. The Hobbit Reading Journal
[Not Posted Yet]
4. The Hobbit books are issued (This is the only version that matches the page numbers in The Hobbit Reading Journal).
5. Upload the following document to iBooks:
(This version of the book DOES NOT match the page numbers in The Hobbit Reading Journal, but if you are desperate, meaning you don't have your book and if you don't read, you will be behind, never to catch up-- use it.)
6. Reminder: On Monday, you will be selecting your teams for the entire 9 weeks again. Choose wisely! First come, first served.
Article about the art of suspense
Tell-Tale Heart clip
Announcements for the 1st 9 Weeks(Scroll Down to View Day-to-Day Assignments)
Are you going to be ABSENT and without Internet?
- Be sure to read through assignments ahead of time or immediately upon returning to campus and open documents in neu.annotate (app) so that you may work on them without Internet. If you want a paper copy of something, please feel free to check the "Extra Copies of Stuff" drawer that is located in the classroom.
Will we be watching a video link while you are out?- Download the video from my iTunes U to view without Internet.
*NEVER assume that you are excused from assignments just because you are absent. YOU, the student, are the one who is responsible for collecting and completing your missed work in a responsible and timely manner. Late policy (see syllabus) countdown begins upon your return to campus.Going to ZAP?
Students are responsible for printing/obtaining their own work for ZAP.
Every Tuesday or Wednesday before a ZAP Saturday I give students a detailed PROGRESS REPORT that lists any and all zeros that he or she may have at that time. When going to ZAP, all the student needs to bring is this PROGRESS REPORT and their iPad for my class. Students may open all assignments in neu.annotate, complete the assignments, and email them to me while they are sitting in ZAP. Students do not need to print work. Essays may be written on notebook paper, which the ZAP teacher will have. Detailed ZAP instructions are printed on the back of every detailed progress report and are on the ZAP Page on this website. If a student goes to ZAP without their Progress Report and iPad, they will be sent home. There are computers available in ZAP to students who have lost iPad privileges.
Outside Reading Assignments are due on 10/16 at exactly 3:15. At 3:16 it is a permanent ZERO. Students need to use their time wisely for reading and doing projects. Do not expect to be allowed to use class time to create projects. Plan ahead! Happy reading!
ELAR Binder Organization Key
Day-to-Day Assignments Begin Here (Most Recent Dates are Stacked on Top)
Teacher Use: Timer
10/24/14, Friday [LAST DAY OF THE 9 WEEKS]
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. iStation: If you are NOT on the incentive, you must log 35 quality minutes; yes, the system will send a grade to me; yes, if you miss school it will be a ZERO!
Homework:
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10/23/14, Thursday
Due: Signed New AR Policy
Sadlier Unit 4 Workbook (due date postponed until 10/30)
Winners of THE BATTLE OF MIDDLE EARTH ARE:
2/3: TBA
4/5: TBA
7/8: TBA
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Mrs. Hyde reads Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day!
2. Vivid Verbs
Brush Strokes- action/vivid verbs (active voice)
3. Chain of Vengeance Verbs- ABC
Homework:
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10/22/14, Wednesday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. STAAR Reading Benchmark
2. Go over New AR Policy
Homework:
Get NEW AR Policy signed by a parent and turn it in for a grade tomorrow!
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10/21/14, Tuesday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
STAAR Writing Benchmark
Homework:
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10/20/14, Monday
Warm-up:
Gather all warm-ups from this 9 weeks. Be sure they are in the correct order. Staple them and turn them in to the Warm-up box.[WU]*
Assignment:
1. Write a final copy of your BOND essay. Take a clear picture of it and submit it to Turnitin.com. WARNING: If your essay can't be read, it can't be graded and will make a ZERO as a Major GRADE!
Use the following instructions if you don't know how to use Turnitin.com:
READ INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is idiot proof if you READ INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!!!!!
2. Turn in the hard copies of your 1st Draft, 2nd Draft, and Final Copy. Staple them together with the Final on top.
Homework:
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10/17/14, Friday
Due: 15 AR Points at 3:15
Also due (7/8): ZAP Progress Report ( If you are in ZAP trying to make up this grade, your mere attendance in ZAP will take care of it.)
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Using your essay, check for each error discussed in the Mini-lessons for Clocking PowerPoint. Use proofreader's marks to fix them. (How attentive you are to finding your errors will be your editing grade for this essay.)
As of right now, you only need to do the following slide #'s: 2-10,18, 20, 24, 25, 41, 46, 51, and 52
Homework:
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10/16/14, Thursday
DUE (2/3-4/5): ZAP Progress Report ( If you are in ZAP trying to make up this grade, your mere attendance in ZAP will take care of it.)
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Revising the Bond Essay
Use the 2nd draft of your Bond essay to do the following activity for revision:
Homework:
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10/15/14, Wednesday
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 3 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 4 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 4.
3. Unit 4 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 4 Workbook due: 10/23*
Unit 4 Spelling due: 10/29*
Unit 4 TEST: 10/29*
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10/14/14, Tuesday
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Library Day
2. SSR
Homework:
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10/13/14, Monday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Using the constructive criticism from your peers and teacher, write a 2nd Draft of your Bond Essay.
Homework:
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10/10/14, Friday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Finish revising and editing essays.
2. Revise the following:
3. iStation (you must log 35 quality minutes)
Homework:
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10/9/14, Thursday
DUE: Sadlier Unit 3 Workbook!
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
Chicktionary WAR!!!
Homework:
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10/8/14, Wednesday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4).
Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
Choose your class set:
Homework:
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10/7/14, Tuesday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4).
Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
Choose your class set:
Homework:
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10/6/14, Monday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4).
Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
Choose your class set:
Homework:
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10/3/14, Friday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4).
Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
Choose your class set:
Homework:
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10/2/14, Thursday
Warm-up:
Watch this video clip about constructive criticism.
Assignment:
1. Using the following rubric, score each essay from your class period 0-4. We will do about 7 a day, so if you miss class do the next 7 essays. As you are grading, use proofreaders' marks to edit and at least two revision suggestions to make the essay better. Also, each essay should have all grammar and format issues marked with proofreader's marks. You may either neu.annotate the essays with these comments and marks, or you may print them to do the comments and marks. Be sure to give the essay a STAAR score and circle it on the essay (0-4).
Recap: (3 things)- 1. at least 2 revisions; 2. all grammar and formatting issues marked; 3. STAAR score
Choose your class set:
Homework:
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10/1/14, Wednesday
Due: Sadlier Unit 2 Spelling
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 2 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 3 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 3.
3. Unit 3 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 3 Workbook due: 10/9*
Unit 3 Spelling due: 10/15*
Unit 3 TEST: 10/15*
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9/30/14, Tuesday
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Library Day!
2. Picture Day!
3. SSR
Homework:
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9/29/14, Monday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
The following must be completed in class within 70 minutes and with no assistance:
Homework:
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9/26/14, Friday
Warm-up:
Using SPATS and the proofreader's mark for a paragraph (see blue Proofreader's Marks sheet in Conventions), mark the following essay for where paragraph breaks should be.
Assignment:
1. You have 20 minutes to complete the pre-writing and the draft of My Place to Love. Turn in. These will count as two separate daily grades. I've decided to move on from the descriptive essay as we need to push forward to the full blown narrative.
2. Discussion about what will happen on Monday: On Monday you will have a mock STAAR Writing Benchmark. Yes, it will count as a major grade. No, you can't receive any help with it as it is a test, an essay test. You have been taught how to use correct capitalization, end punctuation, and several comma rules. You have been taught Brush Strokes and the use of "perfect words." You have been taught dialogue and paragraphing. Now it is time to show what you have learned. It will be an "open-binder" mock STAAR Writing Benchmark.
3. I read //Owl Moon// by Jane Yolen.
4. iStation
Homework:
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9/25/14, Thursday
DUE: Unit 2 Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook is due (Writing in Action included)
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Drafting My Place to Love:
Homework:
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9/24/14, Wednesday
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Mrs. Daleo, the counselor, will be coming in to talk about bullying.
2. I read All the Places to Love by Patrica MacLachlan
3. Pre-writing for My Place to Love
Homework:
Complete All the Places to Love- pre-writing
Unit 2 Sadlier Workbook (including Writing: Words in Action) is due tomorrow!
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9/23/14, Tuesday
Warm-up:
I read Hello Ocean by Pam Muoz Ryan.
I do not have the full book of a Youtube version of this, but go to this link and you can at least read half of it. Half of it will be enough. Use the graphic organizer from below to categorize the words in the book.
Assignment:
1. Read, know, and DO pages 1-4.
Use the following word bank to help with your descriptions:
2. Quick Write
After you have written your four sentences describing the pictures from the document above, choose the sentence you think is your best. Make this sentence your FIRST sentence of a new story. (10 minutes)[AP]*
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9/22/14, Monday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Read, know, and DO pages 3-4
2. You may outline and draft your Sadlier Writing in Action essay that is due on Thursday or you may read for AR. (Note: When the prompt says that you need three supporting ideas, you may do two.)
Homework:
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9/19/14, Friday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Follow the instructions to mark the specific punctuation marks within dialogue.
2. Read and complete the following:
3. Complete the following with your team or on your own.
Homework:
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9/18/14, Thursday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Review dialogue punctuation with this video. Take notes on the provided note sheet.
__Dialogue Review Video__
2. Go over Rules for Punctuating Dialogue:
3. Follow the instructions to mark the specific punctuation marks within dialogue.
Homework:
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9/17/14, Wednesday
Due: Sadlier Unit 1 Spelling
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 1 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 2 Workbook pages 22-26. Yes, Writing in Action HAS been assigned for this unit. It will be due on the same day as the workbook. Pick ONE of the prompts to write a fully organized and developed essay. (23-26 lines; Remember to focus on your small, tight, and curvy handwriting. There should not be much white space on the page when you are done. If you PRE-ORGANIZE you will make a higher grade.)
(Note: When the prompt says that you need three supporting ideas, you may do two.)
If you own your book, you may write your essay on notebook paper or the back of the answer document below. If you don't own your book, you may write your essay on the back of your workbook answer document.
3. Unit 2 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 2 Workbook and Writing- Words in Action are due: 9/25*
Unit 2 Spelling due: 10/1*
Unit 2 TEST: 10/1*
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9/16/14, Tuesday
Warm-up:
None
Assignment:
1. Library Day!
2. SSR
Homework:
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9/15/14, Monday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
1. Read, know, and highlight the following notes:
Brush Strokes- appositives video
2. Read, know, and DO:
3. Read, know, and DO pages 1-2
Homework:
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9/12/14, Friday
Due: Binder Check!
Warm-up:
First Three Weeks' Pop Quiz!
Assignment:
1. Type a final copy of your "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem. Print 2 copies.
Staple in this order to turn in:
Top: 1 FINAL COPY
Blank Rubric
2nd Draft (Editing)
Peer Graded Rubric
1st Draft
Peer Drafting sign off sheet (PowerPoint)
Fill in the blank drafting template (if you did one)
Bottom: Pre-writing triangle
Staple and turn in for your first major grade.[G]*
2. Log into iStation (to make up this grade at home, follow the instructions on my iStation page on how to install this program to your home computer; you may also use the app from the App Store (free), but you will still need the domain name from my iStaiton page to make it work)
- use the log in information that I give you
- you must use headphones from the very start
- you must listen when it talks to you
- yes, your performance on iStaiton is a grade; and yes, iStaion tells me everything: wrong answers and even off task (inactive) time. You must be focused to make a good grade.
Homework:
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9/11/14, Thursday
Due: Unit 1 Sadlier Vocabulary Workbook
Warm-up:
None
Assignments:
1. 20 minutes to rewrite a REVISED clean copy (2nd draft). (The more improvement you made during revision, the higher your grade.)
1. Use a different color ink to edit your "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem. Use proofreader's marks!
- Is there a comma after every assumption?
- Is there a semi-colon after the first and second sentence in every stanza?
- Does every stanza end with a period?
- Is the first letter of every sentence capitalized?
- Are there any other punctuation errors?
- Are there any spelling errors?
- One person on your team will use the following rubric to score your poem (No this is not your real grade. The person on your team will be doing you a favor by scoring it before I grade it, so you can have a chance to correct some issues before you write your final copy tomorrow for the BIG grade.)
Abandoned Farmhouse Rubric.pdf
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If you are in ZAP trying to make up this editing grade, you will be editing the following writing sample using your proofreader's marks (There are 45 errors):2. Let's look at ABSOLUTES again:
Homework:
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9/10/14, Wednesday
Due:
Image Grammar- Writing Absolutes and Absolute Phrases (from 9/9)
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Revise "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem from 9/4.
Follow the PowerPoint to Revise your poem.
*If you are in ZAP trying to make up this grade, you will be revising the following writing sample:
Homework:
Sadlier is due tomorrow!
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9/9/14, Tuesday
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Complete the following.
2. Draft "Abandoned Farmhouse" Poem
You may draft on notebook paper.
You may use one of the following drafting templates to help you if you need help, but you must still draft another copy on notebook paper:
Homework: If you do not finish "Image Grammar- Writing Absolutes and Absolute Phrases" in class, it is for homework.
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9/8/14, Monday
Warm-up:
Assignment:
Brush Strokes- absolutes (you only need to view this if you were not present in class)
1. Go over Absolute Phrases from the following handouts:
2. Locate the absolutes.
3. Draft "Abandoned Farmhouse" Poem
You may draft on notebook paper.
You may use one of the following drafting templates to help you if you need help, but you must still draft another copy on notebook paper:
Homework:
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9/5/14, Friday
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Conflict Resolution
2. Complete pre-writing framework of your "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem.
3. Draft "Abandoned Farmhouse" mimic poem.
Homework:
1. If you haven't already, get your parent to set up your Apple account.
2. Go to my iTunesU and upload all FREE apps.
3. If you don't already have a Quizlet account or you forgot your Quizlet account information, open the following document and follow all instructions. If you have a Quizlet account, all you need to do is go to my Sadlier page again, select Unit 1, and add to your favorites in Quizlet.
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9/4/14, Thursday
Warm-up:
Assignment: "Abandoned Farmhouse" cont...
1. Subject Verb Agreement
2. Highlight the prepositional phrases in the following poem in yellow.
3. Poetry analysis: In the margin of the poem, write the setting of each stanza. Below the poem, answer these questions:
- What do you notice about the setting of the poem per stanza?
- Does the poem's setting become more general and focused out, or does it become more specific and focused in? Explain your answer with evidence from the text and in complete sentences.
4. Now, read the following assignment:5. Now that you have read the assignment, fill in the following graphic organizer. You must first decide on your setting and what it is that you will reveal about yourself in the end.
This graphic organizer might help you also, but not required:
6. The following will serve as a guided starting point. Fill it in as you begin to write your poem. Get it checked to be sure you have the right idea. When you get the thumbs up, begin drafting your whole poem on notebook paper. You will be free to fly.
Homework:
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9/3/14, Wednesday
Warm-up:
1.
2. Go to this link and either add to home screen (if you don't have your Apple ID along with the Quizlet app yet) or add to favorites (if you do have your Apple ID and Quizlet app).
Assignment: Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Day
1. Word Vomit Game
2. Unit 1 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.)
3. I will issue Sadlier books today. If you would like to write in your Sadlier book, then you need to bring me $10. Checks can be made out to HMS.
If you have not purchased your book, you will need to write everything on the following paper:
4. Read pages 12-13 out loud.
5. Practice writing the words in their spaces on pages 14-16.
6. Complete pages 17-21.
Homework:
1. Finish your Unit 1 Workbook assignments (Sadiler Workbook Unit 1 is due Thursday, 9/11)
2. Continue to study the Unit 1 words: their spellings, their definitions, their associated suffixes, and practice using the words in your own vocabulary. My vocabulary tests can be hard. Merely knowing the definition will not help you. Practice using the words in your own vocabulary when you speak to your peers, parents, and teachers. Before every vocabulary test is given, you have an opportunity to earn extra credit on the test in what I call "Vocabulary Recall." Before the test, 4 minutes will be set on the clock and you will have to write down as many vocabulary words (spelled correctly) as you can recall from your memory on notebook paper. You can get +1 for each word you remember within the 4 minutes that you spell correctly. Recall words must be from current unit.
Sadlier Vocabulary Unit 1 TEST will be on 9/ 17
9/2/14, Tuesday
Warm-up:
none
Assignment:
1. Library Day
2. SSR (Silent Sustained Reading)- a good chance to get into your new book!
Homework:
Continue to read for AR.
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8/29/14, Friday
Due: HW corrections from 8/27
Warm-up: Female Names
[WU]
Assignment:
1. Read and highlight
2. Read and highlight
3. Highlight the prepositional phrases in the following poem in yellow; highlight the subject of each sentence in green; highlight the verb that belongs to the subject in each sentence in pink (you may use the colors you have, just create a legend):
4. Poetry analysis: In the margin of the poem, write the setting of each stanza. Below the poem, answer these questions:
- What do you notice about the setting of the poem per stanza?
- Does the poem's setting become more general and focused out, or does it become more specific and focused in? Explain your answer with evidence from the text and in complete sentences.
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8/28/14, Thursday
Due:
Homework from 8/27
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Finish "Writing with Participles" (page 3 and 4) of the following:
2. Do the "Writing with Participles- Quick Write" from the bottom of page 4 on your own notebook paper.
3. Share time.
Homework:
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8/27/14, Wednesday
Due: School supplies and parent signature form- LAST CHANCE for warm-up passes!
Warm-up:
Assignments:
Intro to Image Grammar- very boring, but if you missed class, you're going to have to watch this.
Brush Strokes- participles and participial phrases- (Sorry, same boring guy)
1. We will go over the Participle and Participial Phrase.
Complete this section of the following document:
2. Complete the following:
Homework:
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8/26/14, Tuesday
Due: School supplies and parent signature form
Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. 1st Day Essay for assessment
Write a 26 line essay about a time in your life where a special or important family memory was made.
2. Copy the entire document on your own notebook paper.[CM] You must copy it exactly. Pay close attention to spacing, size of letters, indentations, punctuation, and etc. You will use this Handwriting Contract as your template and guide for writing anything in this class. I know that it is a lot to write, but I need you to understand the seriousness of your handwriting this year. You may trace if you would like to, but it is not required. You may not trace the last three lines of the document. You need to write those without tracing.
Homework:
Get school supplies if you have not already, make your dividers, and get your Wiki space/Syllabus form signed.
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8/25/14, Monday
Warm-up:
Seating chart and introductions
Assignments:
1. Go over Syllabus:
Print 2 copies of the syllabus: one to take home and one to keep in your ELAR Binder
2. Setting up your ELAR BINDER
Label dividers and place in card-stock binder dividers
- 1. Warm-ups (label) [WU]
- 2. Writing (label) [W]
- - Applied Practice (card-stock divider- I will provide)
Divider Writing Applied Practice.pdf
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- - Word Bank (card-stock divider- I will provide)
Divider Writing Word Bank.pdf
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- - Conventions (card-stock divider- I will provide)
Divider Writing Conventions.pdf
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- - Gallery (card-stock divider- I will provide)
Divider Writing Gallery.pdf
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- 3. Reading (label) [R]
- 4. Vocabulary (label) [V]
- 5. Classroom and Misc. (label) [CM]
3. Place the following documents behind the correct divider:Behind the main Writing divider:
Behind the Word Bank divider:
Behind the Conventions divider:
4. Place an extra copy of the syllabus and a ream of notebook paper behind the Classroom and Misc. divider. [CM]
5. Place each of the following in your three-ringed, zippered pencil pouch and put the pouch in the very front of your ELAR Binder:
- 4 different colors of highlighters
- 12 ct. map pencils
- 2 red pens
- 1 multi-colored pen
- 1 big eraser
- several pencils
- 1 hand-held sharpener
- 1 small glue stick
6. Place your reinforcers in a pocket in your binder7. Using a dark Sharpie marker, write your first and last name on the spine and on the front of your binder. If you have a black binder, ask for a metallic Sharpie. I have a few.
8. Turn in the following to me:
- 1 package of multi-colored highlighters
- 3x5 lined index cards
- Expo markers
- Kleenex
- Any extra supplies
9. When you have completed assembling your ELAR Binder, show me. This is a grade (your 1st grade)!ELAR Binder Rules:
9. Practice getting and putting away supplies. You will put your ELAR Binder on the shelf that has your team name on it. If you move teams, so does your binder.
Homework:
Get school supplies if you have not already, do today's assignment for your 1st grade, and get your Wiki space/Syllabus form signed.
Archived Enrichment Lessons from 14/15:
Friday, 3-27-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Grammar Review
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Thursday, 3-26-15
Warm-up:1. Quick Write
2. Study for your Sadlier Recall Test
Assignments:
1. Sadlier Recall Test (25 minutes)
2. I read The Dot.
3. Last minute questions answered.
4. We shared some of the warm-ups.
5. On Sunday and Monday night, go to be at a reasonable hour. Monday and Tuesday morning- eat a good protein filled breakfast. DO NOT eat sugary breakfasts foods such as doughnuts or pastries. Also, stay away from sugary drinks such as orange juice, chocolate or strawberry milks, sugary sodas, and fruit juices in general. Prepare your mind on the way to school in the morning. Know that you can do this! Know that Mrs. Hyde is proud of you and how far you have grown this year!
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Wednesday, 3-25-15
DUE: Combining Appositives and Present Participle Phrases from 3/24Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. We will share a few of the warm-ups.
2.
3. We will share a few of the postcards.
Homework:
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Tuesday, 3-24-15
DUE: Plurals Packet from 3/23Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Expository Organizational and Hat Trick Review
2. Complete the following:
Homework:
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Monday, 3-23-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Grammar Review
Clocking- View the following PowerPoint. Do the following with the slides titled (TBA) through (TBA) to make up this grade.
With each slide and each concept, write a sentence that contains an error associated with the grammar concept at hand. Ex: If the grammar concept on the slide is about capitalization, write a sentence that contains an error in capitalization. If the slide is about run-on sentences, write a run-on sentence and then correct it in a different color pen. Do this for all slides with a grammar concept. Then, using a different color pen, correct the sentences using proofreaders' marks.
Homework:
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Friday, 3-20-15
DUE: OUTSIDE READING IS DUE IN Turnitin.com by 3:15 today!Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Traits of Writing- Sentence Fluency
Homework:
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Thursday, 3-19-15
DUE: g7 Grammar-appositive phrases-103 due from 3/18Warm-up:
Assignments:
1. Traits of Writing- Word Choice and Sentence Fluency
Delicious Describers
Browse through the following menus. Notice the word choices and sentence structures being used. Notice they are not using: Hamburger with cheese, lettuce, tomato, and pickle. You will see language dripping with flavor!
2. Read through your new and scrumptious word list. On the back of the paper, create your own delectable menu item.
3. Now, here's the real challenge. Follow instructions on the assignment. Have fun with it!
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Wednesday, 3-18-15
Due: Sound Effects ReviewWarm-up:
none
Assignments:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 9 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 10 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 10.
3. Unit 10 Spelling Practice:
3. We will discuss the BIG SADLIER RECALL TEST to be held on 3/26 (See HW below)
4. Big Sadlier Recall Word Vomit Story:
Using the study list from below, write a silly story using at least 25 Sadlier (Units 1-10) words. The story must use the words correctly and have one plot to get credit. Turn in your story, but keep the word handout to study for your test.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
THE BIG SADLIER RECALL TEST (Units 1-9) 3/26 (You will have 25 minutes to recall as many words, spelled correctly, from your Sadlier units as possbile. You will earn 3 points for every word you can recall and spell correctly. This is a Major Grade.)
Unit 10 Workbook due: 4/30*
Unit 10 TEST and Spelling Practice: 5/6*
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Tuesday, 3-17-15
Due: Subjects and Predicates 1 due from 3/16Warm-up: none
Assignments:
1. Library Day
2. Team Evaluations
3. Fill out this Google Doc Survey.
4. SSR
5. Share Destruction essays from yesterday.
Homework:
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Monday, 3-16-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Traits of Writing Activity:
Homework:
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Friday, 3-6-15
Warm-up:Enter your warm-up answers into this link.
Assignments:
1.
2. Personal Narrative: As you are writing your essay, be sure to use your new brush stroke technique!
Homework:
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Thursday, 3-5-15
Warm-up:SADLIER WORKBOOK UNIT 9 IS DUE!
Assignments:
1. STAAR Sentence Revising TEST: be sure to enter your answers into this link.
2. Publish magazines to iBooks. Go into Moxtra. Put the final magazine pages in the correct order under the pages tab. Select the final pages that are to be published. Select export to PDF with annotations, select iBooks. Email iBook to Mrs. Hyde at chyde@hjhawks.net.
3. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
4. Turn in FINAL COPY along with the other parts of the writing process in this order (stapled):
TOP: Final copy
2nd: 2nd draft (the one that I wrote all over)
3rd: Peer Revision Sheet
4th: 1st draft
5th: Prompt and Outline paper
6th BOTTOM: Homer Simpson paper
5. From the following, do Activity 9, Practice 1 on your own notebook paper. Be sure to READ ALL instructions. You WILL FAIL if you don't:
(In class: Get the green Sentence Composing workbook. Do pages 30-32 on your own notebook paper. Turn in.)
Homework:
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Wednesday, 3-4-15
Warm-up:Enter your answers to the warm-up in this link.
Assignments:
1. Team conferences with Mrs. Hyde about last minute edits for magazines.
2. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
3. From the following, do Activity 7, Practice 2 and Activity 9, Practice 1 on your own notebook paper. Be sure to READ ALL instructions. You WILL FAIL if you don't:
(In class: Get the green Sentence Composing workbook. Do pages 24-26 and 30-32 on your own notebook paper. Turn in.)
Homework:
Complete ALL edits and revisions. We WILL publish tomorrow!
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Tuesday, 3-3-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Team conferences with Mrs. Hyde about last minute edits for magazines.
2. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
3. From the following, do Activity 7, Practice 1 on your own notebook paper. Be sure to READ ALL instructions. You WILL FAIL if you don't:
(In class: Get the green Sentence Composing workbook. Do pages 24-26 on your own notebook paper. Turn in.)
Homework:
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Monday, 3-2-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Team conferences with Mrs. Hyde about last minute edits for magazines.
2. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
3. From the following, do Activity 6, Practice 1 and 2 on your own notebook paper. Be sure to READ ALL instructions. You WILL FAIL if you don't:
(In class: Get the green Sentence Composing workbook. Do pages 20-22 on your own notebook paper. Turn in.)
Homework:
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Friday, 2-27-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Sentence Combining Practice
2. Work on final copy of Learning from Mistakes essay. Be sure to write "FINAL COPY" at the top.
Homework:
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Monday, 2-23-15----Thursday, 2-26-15
REFER TO THE MAIN 3RD WEEKS PAGE FOR ASSIGNMENTS UNTIL PEER REVISIONS ARE COMPLETED (ABOUT A WEEK).--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, 2-20-15 (SUB 2nd-3rd)
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Rewrite 2nd draft of Learning from our Mistakes essay.[G]
2. Seriously, complete last minute edits of magazine projects. We are really publishing on Monday! For real this time! No, really!
Homework:
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Thursday, 2-19-15 (SUB all day)
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Complete 1st draft.
2. Swap papers to do this Revision Activity:
23 Sentence Combining Activity
Homework:
Anything not completed.
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Wednesday, 2-18-15 (SUB 3rd)
Warm-up:None
Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 8 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 8 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 9.
3. Unit 9 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 9 Workbook due: 3/5*
Unit 9 Spelling due: 3/18*
Unit 9 TEST: 3/18*
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Tuesday, 2-17-15
Warm-up:Watch this video.
Assignments:
1. Respond:
2. Write the 1st Draft to the following prompt:
2. If you finish early you may work on your magazine project.
Homework:
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Monday, 2-16-15 (SUB 3rd)
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Complete group conferences.
2. Do the following assignment:
If you finish early you may work on your magazine project.
Homework:
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Friday, 2-13-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Work on Magazine Projects.
Fix last minute errors.
Publishing DAY!
Homework:
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Thursday, 2-12-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Complete Magazine Projects and have a team conference with Mrs. Hyde.
2.
3.
4.
Homework:
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Wednesday, 2-11-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Work on Magazine Projects.
Homework:
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Tuesday, 2-10-15
Warm-up:None
Assignments:
1. Library Day
2. SSR
Homework:
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Monday, 2-9-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Work on Magazine Projects.
Homework:
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Friday, 2-6-15 (SUB)
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Work on Magazine Projects
Homework:
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Thursday, 2-5-15 (SUB)
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Work on Magazine Projects
Homework:
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Wednesday, 2-4-15 (SUB)
Warm-up:[WU]
Assignments:
1. Work on Magazine Projects
Homework:
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Tuesday, 2-3-15 (SUB)
Warm-up:Assignments:
1.
2. Work on Magazine Projects.
Homework:
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Monday, 2-2-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Power Write
2. Work on Magazine Projects.
Homework:
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Friday, 1-30-15
Warm-up:Power Writing
Assignments:
1. Mini-lesson:
2. Work on Transitions, Text Structure, and Text Feature Magazine Project with your team.
Homework:
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Thursday, 1-29-15
Warm-up:Assignments:
1. Read through the entire activity devise a plan and get started:
Homework:
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Wednesday, 1-28-15
Warm-up:Do the iOS update if you haven't already.
Assignment:
1. Take Sadlier Unit 7 Vocabulary Test (This can only be done in class. If you are not here, you must make the time to come to tutorials within the next few days. Tests are -10 per week that you neglect to get your test made up.)
2. Complete Sadlier Unit 8 Workbook pages. No, Writing in Action HAS NOT been assigned for Unit 8.
3. Unit 8 Spelling (Spelling is always due on test day. Keep spelling in your binder and work on it when you finish warm-ups early. In desperate situations, I will allow you to take it home to finish.) For this particular unit, the first page is a page of bookmarks for you. You may separate it from the rest of the pack, cut them out, and place them where you will see them most: in the car, on the mirror, in a book, etc.
Homework: Whatever is not finished in class from today becomes homework. Don't wait until the last minute; do a little every night. Keep studying!
Unit 8 Workbook due: 2/12*
Unit 8 Spelling due: 2/18*
Unit 8 TEST: 2/18*
4. Power Writing
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Tuesday, 1-27-15
Warm-up:None
Assignments:
1. Library [Text Feature assignment while in Library]
2. SSR and Reading Journal time (type in Docs)
Homework:
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Monday, 1-26-15
Warm-up:Select the warm-up for YOUR class period:
Assignments:
1. Go to Moxtra and upload the app to your iPad.
2.. Watch this Text Features video while completing the following notes:
3. Open the following article in neu.annotate.
4. Complete the practice test:
Homework:
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